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If the Senate has not acted on the War Prohibition 'bill when
' The Commoner reaches you, wire the Senate in care of one of
Vour senators, urging war prohibition. A telegram now will help to
banish the saloon and help to win the war.
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, " '',' JVIVA, GOVERNOR PLEASANT
.,,iT)io $panish havo a word, viva, which means
' Jfve," ,or "life o." It is used as our word
Aiurrah lt but is raoro euphonious and more ex
pressive. The Commoner uses it to cheer and commend
iji chief executive of Louisiana who has just
ivoui such a signal victory for the prohibition
amendment. Throwing all tho influence of his
High ofllco and his strAg personality on the side
Of- ratification, ho secured at tho regular session
to favorable vote in tho house. In tho senate the
Vote, owing to one vacancy, was n tie, and the
press announced that Louisiana had rejected
the amendment. But a courageous spirit like
Governor Pleasant is not so easily bafled. He
immediately ca.lcd a special election to All the
Vacancy and then called a special session of the
loglslatuio so hat a full vote could be had, He
Jnow onjoys his l'eward. Tho wu'utnr chosen at
thd' spe'daT election voted dry and Louisiana' be
'COmefe state No. 14 on thd Roll of "Honor.
Bravo, governor; you'deserve' the' gratitude of
vour -state and the plaudits of the nation.
W. J. BRYAN.
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REPUBLICAN POLITICS
It Is very evident that the republican leaders
r determined to do their best to take congress.
.If. they can convince the voters to substitute a
republican congress for a democratic congress
this year thoy will be encouraged to hope for
$ho election of a republican president in 1920.
They say that a republican congress well help
,1,9 win. tho war,; will -they tell the. public how a
publican congress would distribute the burdens
.?! Wation? That is an important issue.
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LOUISIANA PALLS IN LINE
"'Louisiana ratified the national 'prohibition
'constitutional amendment August 8. The vote
' Jit' the senate was twenty-two to twenty-one, and
th'e hoso, sixty-nirio to Xorty-ono. Thus Louisi
ana, always classed as a wet state, takes a high
"Waco -Oh1 the roll of honor of the states that have
Se'S i banIs,h,tlie lio.uor curse from the nation.
'Odod lor Louisiana. Next!
WATTERSON RETIRES
,lt Tho retirement of Col. Henry Watterson from
.tfcUyo newspaper work removes from the jour
nalistic arena one of its most picturesque figures
5,Hq was a fighter by nature and he cultivated the
4rt..fo;a lifetime. Peace to tho warrior in
.hte .h,a,nd the pen was mightier than the sword
h jMtvy the sunset days bo his happiest.
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MERIT REWARDED
Tlie fenomination of James in "Kentucky
Owen In Oklahoma, Sheppard In Texas and
"Thompson in Kansas would indicate that tho
democrats are putting up their best men this
year: And Missouri has done weU in presenting
F0lto for the senate. m presenting
& MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE AGAINST
GERMANY BUT NOT ONE SOUX.FOR
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LIQUOR DEALERS AT WORK
. Following is a copy of a letter, reproduced
in the Christian Advocate, which is being se'nt
to those engaged in the liquor business:
"To all our Associates in Business Buyers
and Sellers alike in the trade? affected.
"Gentlemen: Please telegraph to the two U.
S. Senators from your state to fight and vote
against the 'Norris Amendment' which trie's to
introduce "nation wide and absolute prohibition.
"Ask your bank or banks to do the same.
Also request your bank or banks to telegraph
protests against the 'Norrls Amendment' to Hon.
, Wm. G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, and
to Hon. F. M.' Simmons, U, S. senate, chairman
of the senate finance committee, explaining in
these telegrams the ruinous consequences to 'all
whiskies in bond, none of which could be with
drawn for beverage purposes' after the passage
,(?f the proposed law, and the consequent disaster
( tobank loans secured' by w'Ki'skey. " " ' '
"Ask all your friends to telegraph protests to
their U. S. senators.
"Immediate, energetic action by all Is imper
ative. Only countrywide pressure can avert the
impending calamity.
1 "Send telegrams at once do not faildo not
delay. "Yours truly, " ..
"BUDDE & WESTERMANN."
THE NEW ERA
Have, you noticed the kind of men who are
coming into politics with the advent of prohi
hibltlon? Keep your eyes on them, they are the
grqwing kind. With the overthrow of the saloon
t the country gets rid of the most corrupting in
fluence of modern times and enters upon a new
era.
iWRWARD MARCH
The Allies march forward. It is at the cost of
many precious lives, but that is war. If we can
win a peace that will end war forever and make
democracy triumphant around the world the
dead will not have died in vain. '
hJLl x"GoyeJnof1. Ferguson will examine the
ballots cast by the women of Texas at the re
cent Primary he will have, personal reasons fop
d 5 ilG th femi?ine dement. The women
did not have to wait until the Investigation to
find out where the $156,000 came from They
guessed the source. ' y
If any one doubts that. "the way of the trans
gressor is hard' let him consult ex-Goveraor
SfffnT ?t TeaB; m exPerience is but an
other illustration of the truth of tM3 moral pri
.fgeTa
Sae.nerfoPrrr e.CUntry aS W
ornCfhrint lias ben called the First Great Demo
n's nme may bQ Why the kaJser never &
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PRESIDENT DENOtjNOESjllOB VIOLEXCK
President Wilson -issued the following state
ment July 26:
My Fellow Countrymen:
I take the liberty of addressing you upon a
subject TVhich so vitally affects the honor of the
nation -and the very character and integrity of
our institutions that?I trust you will think me
justified 'in speaking very plainly about it.
I allude to the mob- spirit whioh has recently
here. and there very frequently shown its head
amongst us, not in any single region, but in
many and widely separated partB of the coun
try. T,here have been many lynchings, and ev
ery one,,pf them hap. been a. blow at the heart
of ordered law and., humane justice. No man
who loyes America, ono- man who really cares
for her fame and honor and character, or who
is truly loyal to her institutions, can justify mob
action, vyvihile the conrts of justice are0open and
the governments- of the 'states and the nation are
ready and-able to do, their 4,uty Wo are at this
very moment fighting lawless passion. Ger
many has outlawed herself among the nations
because she has disregarded the sacred obliga
tions of law and has made lynchers of her
armies. Lynchers emulate her disgraceful ex
ample. J, for my part, am anxious to see every
community in America rise above that level with
pride and a fixed resolution which no man or set
of men can afford to despise.
CLAIM TO BE CHAMPIONS OF DEMOCRACY.
We proudly claim to be the champions of
democracy. H-'We really are, in deed and in
truth, let us see to it that we do not discredit
our own. I say plainly that every American
who takes part in the action of a mob or gives
it any sort of countenance is no true son of this
great democracy, but its betrayer, and does more
to discredit her by that single disloyalty to her
standards of law and of right that the words of
her statesmen or the sacrifices of her heroic
boys in the trenches can do to make suffering
peoples believe her to be their savior. How
shall we commend democracy to the acceptance of
other peoples, if we disgrace our own by prov
ing that it is, after all,, no protection to the
w.eak Every mob contributes" to German lies
about the United States what her most gifted
liars can not improve upon by the way of cal
umny. They can at least say that such things
can not happen in Germany except in times of
revolution, when law is swept away!
w Herefore very earnestly and solemnly beg
mLl he governors of all the states, the law
officers of every community, and, above all, the
nifno Yomen of every community in the
united States, all who revere America and wish
n P her name without stain or reproach, will
co-operate- not passively merely, but actively
emPp7nitChfnllyT-t0 make an Of this (lis
miVni? i V ?fc Can not livG wliere the C0D1'
mumty does not countenance-it. '
oL!iaV1 Cxalled upon the nation to put its great
energy into this war . and it has responded
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